Book workflows

In this chapter we are going to discuss books.…And in this first section, we are going to talk just a book workflowing and just sort of what books are.…I want to introduce you to them and get you a feel for what they can do for us.…One thing that a lot of people wind up doing is if you create documents and let's say that you've got a book, a literal book,…or you are working on a magazine, or working on, let's say, an article with sections or something like that.…A lot of times, what you are going to have is a group of people that are working on each one…of these documents, you might want to split it out into sections.…

Let's say that you have a book, and the book is three hundred and some odd pages long.…If you want to separate that out as chapters, let's say, you can do that pretty easily.…Each one could be a separate document.…What I want to do is show you something now.…I want to go out to the desktop, in the exercise files folder, open that up, take a look.…We are in Chapter 7 right now.…If you look, we actually have, right here, it says, "book_final."…

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4/10/2006

InDesign CS2 Beyond the Basics delves into the more advanced features of Adobe InDesign CS2, including tools for working with long documents. The tutorial covers the program's features for dealing with books, indexes, and tables of contents, and teaches you how to use the automation tools like Scripts and Data Merge. Brian Wood, a certified Adobe Creative Suite 2 Master, also shares tips and tricks for working more efficiently in the program by using Snippets, Libraries, Object Styles, and more. This video tutorial is recommended for intermediate-level InDesign CS2 users, and those who have completed the InDesign CS2 Essential Training or its equivalent. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.